BLAG is a 100% Free Software distribution with all the tools you want from a desktop computer, plus more. It comes on a single CD, is easily installed, and user friendly. Power users have the resources of a repository that combines bits from Fedora, freshrpms, Dries, ATrpms, livna, Planet CCRMA, and our own special brews.

BLAG 70000 (sugarwater) is a new series with a new base (F7) and many new applications. It is released under the GNU GPL v3.

Featuring all of the applications below on JUST ONE CD. Burn copies and hand them out! It's got it all. Did I mention it's all on just one CD?

inkscape
enabled with inkboard so you can collaboratively work on drawings with other users via the Internet using jabber!

Put in the CD, hit enter at the boot: prompt, and answer the few questions. :)

Alternately, if you want to ERASE EVERTYHING on your hard drive and do an automated install, you can type:
blagblagblag
at the boot: prompt of the initial screen of the CDROM. This makes installation fast and easy for computer labs, recycling centers, etc.

Upgrade Instructions:
Put in the CD and select "Upgrade" when prompted. After the install and you've rebooted into the upgraded system you can run this, if you are connected to the Internet, to grab updates to packages you may have installed that weren't on the CD:
apt-get update
apt-get --fix-broken install

Seems like there aren't any binary DVD images either in the bittorrent, FTP or HTTP. (Actually, at the moment I get a "550 bin/ls Resource temporarily unavailable" sort of message when I try to snoop around the FTP site, the ibiblio mirror doesn't appear to have the 70000 image, and the gatech mirror seems to be having an off-day, as well.)

I use a very heavily customized Blag (like tons of KDE), I understood that it was best to upgrade from the 2 binary DVD ISOs for a less painful experience.

I've got 2 50K boxen & even have a 30K install I'd like to update since they aren't getting security updates anymore (plus, I'd like to play around with features like ntfs-3g, compositing windows managers, Wine that actually works, etc, stuff that didn't really exist back in the 30k days). Should I wait for a DVD image, try upgrading with the CD or just blow away my root partition and go for a clean install?

It looks like the Distrowatch announcement for 70k didn't mention liveBLAG. I bet that that would generate some interest. I see that other distros, like Zenwalk, have separate announcements for their standard version and the live version. If you all think it's ready, how about sending a message to distrowatch announcing the debut of liveBLAG 70K?

I just installed BLAG on my MacBook Pro within Parallels. Not Free Software I know but just letting you know it works like a charm. No problems with drivers or anything. Bootcamp also works my friend told me. I had to select Solaris as the OS in Parallels but this is a Parallels problem well documented with the 2.6 kernel it seems.

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